Lead Data Engineer

Why choose Eneco? We want to accelerate the energy transition. With our ambitious ‘One Planet plan’, we have made it clear that by 2035, we aim to be the first energy company to become CO2-neutral. No more reliance on natural gas! The entire Netherlands is making the switch. Towards smarter, cleaner, and more sustainable energy. Everyone has their own reasons for doing so. Some want to contribute to a better climate, others switch because their neighbours are doing it, or because they find joy in saving energy, and we're doing it now!

At Eneco, we want to help everyone to take the next sustainable step. And we are looking for the best people who can make that possible. People who are enthusiastic about our mission of 'sustainable energy for everyone' and who want to further develop their talents at Eneco. We want everyone to be able to participate effortlessly in the energy transition. This can only happen if we better assist our customers, remove barriers for them to become more sustainable by listening and understanding their true needs.

Digital innovations help the market align supply and demand and make it as easy as possible for users. Data plays a crucial role in this. From the Data & Technology Services department, we are working to make Eneco a data-driven organization that bases its decisions and actions on customer, product, asset, and market data.

In Data & Technology Services, the Data Services department is responsible for executing data projects for the Business and fuelling the growth of data capabilities by acting as an incubator for the development of data products.

Lead Data Engineer

As Lead data engineer, you have an essential role in transforming Eneco's projects into stable, robust productionized data-driven applications. The lead data engineer shapes the Data Engineering team together with the Product Owner and Manager. This requires a deep understanding of how data pipelines behave in production and use this knowledge to enable implementation, optimization, and maintenance of complex data flows. You are an enabler who plays a pivotal role in the 'democratization' of data: you help to retrieve, store, transform, and disclose data for use in data-driven solutions.

• Building and maintaining data pipelines, note that this may require working in the evening or weekend.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies to deliver the most efficient solutions for the business.
• Support the Product Owner and Manager in growing and developing the Data Engineering team
• Act as thought leader on Data Engineering within the organization. This requires staying up to date on the latest developments.

You like solving complex issues, but you do not lose sight of being able to properly maintain the data product. Where necessary, you coach your colleagues in realizing and maintaining data products.

• At least 5 years of relevant work experience in a Data Engineering role.
• Academic work and thinking level.

• Experience with Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and TimescaleDB.
• Experience in CI/CD, Snowflake, Azure, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Java.
• Knowledge of concepts/components such as warehouse, data lake, data mesh, data vault, data fabric, and streaming solutions.

You will be working in the Data Service Department, which is part of Data & Technology Services. Data Services has multiple teams, for example, Enterprise Data Management, PowerBI Competence Center and Data Warehouse Engineering. You will be part of the Data Engineering team that assists the business in using the various parts of the Enterprise Data Platform effectively to create customer and business value.

We understand that you might want to know more before taking the next step in your career. Therefore, we encourage you to get in touch with our recruiter, Mark van Dommelen, at mark.van.dommelen@eneco.com. Whether you have questions about the interview process, the specific tasks and responsibilities of the position, or are simply curious about the company culture, we are ready to answer all your questions.